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Firefox has an ambitious new roadmap, the browser is also losing millions of users a month (www.techspot.com)
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[–] 26 points 4 months ago* (11 children)

It seems a good part of Mozilla's problems keeping users are actually being caused by Google. Besides the constant incompatibilities introduced by Google there's this:

This is Firefox's CPU utilization when just looking at Google's search page in a private window since Google turned on AI by default. My laptop literally gets too hot to be used on my lap. The exact same search on Chrome takes less than 2% CPU. (Yes, I know about Duckduckgo.)

Recently disabling native AI features in Firefox significantly reduced CPU use, but a couple of days ago it shot up again only when on Google's search page.

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  • [–] 14 points 4 months ago

    I noticed this as well. Just opening google caused my GPU usage to constantly sit at ~70 % usage even without searching anything. Is google crowd sourcing compute on peoples computeres or WTF is going on? i completely stopped using google on all my devices and I dont have this problem anymore.

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  • [–] 11 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    Use Duckduckgo. You can even disable the AI

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago

    For years Google downgraded people's experience on search, maps, and youtube on mobile if they didn't use Chrome for Android. As a Firefox mobile user, it was very frustrating. I don't use many Google services anymore, but they, seemingly intentionally, were making other browsers feel worse. I wouldn't be surprised if they were doing it in different ways on desktop.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

    Thats weird. I tried it both private and not on googles home page and I get pretty much nothing for cpu use.

    Wonder why its so different for you.

    Fedora Linux if it makes any difference.

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  • [+] -8 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    How is google being poorly optimized for other browsers a Firefox problem? Stop being a product and stop using google search. There are several search engines out there that are better.

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